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M. HOWARD.

I BROOCH PIN. No. 402,672. Patented May 7, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MENDEL HOWARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BROOCH-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,672, dated May 7', 1889.

Application filed November 22, 1888. Serial No. 291,709. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MENDEL HOWARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Brooch-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce an improved brooch pin which can be easily attached to and detached from the garments of the wearer.

The nature of the invention consists in the details of combination and construction, substantially as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a sectionalview of abrooch embodying my invention. Figs. 2, 3, 4,5, and 6 all illustrate different modifications of my invention, more fully hereinafter described. Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10 are detail views of parts of the mechanism, more fully hereinafter described.

In Fig. 1, A designates a tube, which is mounted upon the back of the brooch.

n b n designate a needle bent so that the two prongs n and n will be nearly parallel to each other.

At the end of the tubeA is an ear, B. This ear is pierced with two holes, 9 and Z. Through the hole Z passes one of the prongs 'n, and eX- tends to Within the tube A. The end of this prong within the tube terminates in a pistonlike plug, 0, which, While it is adapted to the interior of said tube, is free to be slipped therein. A stationary needle, n, is fastened to said tube and extends toward the middle of and parallel to said tube. To meet this, one of the prongs 77. passes through the hole g of the ear B, and, extending parallel to said tube, reaches beyond the point of n; or this needle n may be fastened near the middle of the tube A and pointed in the same direction as the needle 17.; or the needle n may be replaced by a clip, F, which may be adapted to engage the point of the needle 72, as illustrated in Fig. 3. For this clip may be substituted a loop, as illustrated by F of Fig. 4..

B of Fig. 7 illustrates the ear through which the needle 01. passes. g designates the hole through which the needle passes, and f the base-pieces supporting said ear.

In all the figures,G represents the front piece of the brooch.

Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of my invention, in which are two parallel tubes, R and R, an ear, B, at either end of these tubes, and two needles, n and 01 having finger-knobs b sliding in said tubes R R, passing through the holes 9 and Z of the ears B, and overlappingeach other, as illustrated.

Fig. 6 illustrates another modification of my invention. In this case the tube A is dispensed with, and the part m 0 of the needle L, Fig. 9, slides on the back of the mountingplate. For that purpose the end of the nee dle may be flattened, as illustrated by m 0 of Fig. 9, or the end thereof may be bent into a loop, as illustrated in Fig. 10, and designated by 0 plate, which, in order to accommodate the end m of the needle, maybe struck with the groove 45 running from side to side in said plate, and in which, for greater steadiness,

8 illustrates a form of the mountingthe saidpart of said needle moves, the whole to be substantially as illustrated in the drawings. To use this invention, the operator in the case of Figs. 1 and 2 draws out the sliding needle 01, and, having hooked the stationary pin a into the garment, so that the brooch will beheld in proper position, secures it there by pushing in the needle n, which, running into the clothes, firmly holds the brooch to the garment of the wearer. This same way is applied to the use of the'form of the brooch illustrated by Fig. 6.

In the case of Figs. 3 and t the needle is drawn out and the brooch held in proper position, so that when the needle is pressed in again it will pass through a part of the garment and into the clip F or the loop F, and so retain the brooch in proper position. In the case of Fig. 5 both needles are drawn out, the brooch placed in proper position, and both needles pushed in to secure it there. To release the brooch, the sliding needles are drawn out, and then the brooch may be easily removed from the garment.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the mountingplate of a brooch, a guide in and upon said mounting-plate, and an ear upon said mount-- ing-plate at the end of said guide, of a pronged needle of the form specified, one prong of which, passing through said ear, slides in said guide, and the other prong of which, also passing through said car into a garment, partly holds said brooch in position, and an auxiliary stationary needle attached to said mounting-plate and arranged to assist said sliding needle in securing said brooch to a garment, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the mountingplate of a brooch, a guide in and upon said mounting-plate, and an ear upon said mounting plate at the end of said guide, of a pron ged needle of the form described, one prong of which, passing through said ear, slides in said guide, and an enlargement upon the end of said prong adapted to said guide and moving therein, the other prong of said needle also passing through said car, a part of the garment to which said brooch is to be fastened, and into a supporting-piece upon said mounting plate, and said supporting-piece, formed and attached as specified, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, With. the mountingplate of a brooch, tubes upon said mountingplate extending across and parallel thereto and parallel to each other, and ears formed upon said mounting-plate at either end of said tubes, of two pronged needles, substantially as specified, one prong of each of said needles passing through one of said ears and sliding in one of said tubes, and the other prong of each of said needles passing through one of said ears and extending without said tubes to and beyond the middle thereof nearly parallel thereto, so as to overlap each other in the garment to which said brooch is to be attached, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 7

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

V MENDEL IIOWVARD.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM RANNE'Y, FRANK; K UNZ, J r. 

